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Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame.
Term of office Length of term Honour(s) 1 Sir John Reith: 1 January 1927 30 June 1938 11 years Knighted 1 January 1927, at the start of his term as DG. [2] Peerage 21 October 1940, after stepping down as DG. [3] Appointed to the Order of the Thistle 18 February 1969. [4] 2 Sir Frederick Ogilvie: 19 July 1938 26 January 1942 3½ years
BBC Woodlands. White City, London. BBC Enterprises (later BBC Worldwide) Former home to the BBC's commercial services, such as programme sales, videos, DVDs, LPs, CDs, books, magazine, computer software and merchandising. BBC White City (White City One, Media Centre, Energy Centre, Garden House) White City, London.
Television Centre ( TVC ), alternatively BBC Studioworks Television Centre, is a building complex in White City, West London, which was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013. After a refurbishment, the complex reopened in 2017 with three studios in use for TV production, operated by BBC Studioworks.
BBC Elstree Centre. / 51.6597°N 0.2747°W / 51.6597; -0.2747. The BBC Elstree Centre, sometimes referred to as the BBC Elstree Studios, [ 1] is a television production facility, currently owned by the BBC. The complex is located between Eldon Avenue and Clarendon Road in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. This site was the first of ...
The Chair of the BBC, referred to as Chairman when the incumbent is male and Chairwoman when female, is the head of the BBC Board, responsible for maintaining the independence of the BBC and overseeing the functioning of the BBC to fulfil its mission. [ 1][ 2] The chair leads the process for appointing the Director-General and can dismiss the ...
The British Broadcasting Company Limited ( BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Licensed by the British General Post Office, its original office was located on the second floor of Magnet House, the GEC buildings ...
BBC head-to-head debate. On Wednesday the final scheduled televised debate of the election campaign saw the Conservatives’ Rishi Sunak and Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer go head-to-head on the BBC.